[mikewarot]

The fact that security by user/group ID with a default of accessing almost everything still is the norm baffles me.

The US dollar backed by nothing still keeps going, thanks to Petrodollar Recycling. On top of this is the 0% effective interest rate for the Banking class, with no effective reserve requirements, and socialized risk.

The Bitcoin boom fascinates me.

The Stock Market, that most famous graph of rich people's feelings, has been overrun with front-running profiteers, yet pretends to be trustworthy.

How the working class haven't strung up the rich yet escapes me.

Civilization takes a huge amount of labor to keep going, yet we have yahoos cheering on the end of it all because G*d will sort it all out, and they'll be in Heaven... yeah, right.